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Gender, women and girls face increased vulnerabilities to all forms of…
Gender
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Gender and Education
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education would develop personal connections to climate change solutions, and change their behaviors accordingly throughout their lives. Climate education was shown to potentially be a more effective way to reduce emissions than many other single solutions
As female are less educated than male in LICs, they are more exposed to the climate change
Gender and Politics
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Policies: promote women's leadership (also in political participations). Now: less women are in role of high positions of politics (countries in MICs, LICs)
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Facts
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Senate: 25, or 25 percent
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Gender and Health
gender differences in health risks that are likely to be exacerbated by climate change, and in adaptation and mitigation measures that can help to protect and promote health.
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Urban Health
Poverty, exposure of dwelling, and managing on their own the disproportionate daily burden of infrastructural needs such as waste management, fuel, water and sanitation make urban female heads of households particularly vulnerable to natural disasters
Rising temperatures may increase the transmission of malaria in some locations, which already causes 300 million acute illnesses and kills almost 1 million people every year (WHO, 2008b). Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to malaria as they are twice as “appealing” as non-pregnant women to malaria-carrying mosquitoes
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Case Study
In addition, more male respondents in Kwara and Nassarawa States respectively (68.9% and 62.6% respectively) than female respondents (31.1% and 37.4% respectively) chose fertilizer application as an adaptation option. This may be due to men frequently exercising greater control over input choices in farming homes. Male respondents from the two States preferred pesticide application as an adaptation strategy, while female respondents preferred the option of collecting targeted loans and credit facilities. Further, male farmers had more access to credit and financial resources, leading to higher adoption of food storage adaptations in the two States (Fig. 7). This could be because men often have authority over food storage decisions in farming households. Both States had higher percentages of male respondents (80% and 70.7% respectively) compared to females (20% and 29.3% respectively) who adopted changes in residence as an adaptation option. This could be because men often have control over migration and relocation decisions in farming households. Overall, the findings imply that gender has a big impact on how agriculture adopts adaptation methods. In farming households, the greater access to resources by men and their decision-making authority has an impact on the habits they adopt. In order to ensure that men and women have an equal opportunity to benefit from adaptation alternatives, gender-sensitive methods for adaptation planning and implementation are essential. 
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